spons
See also: spöns
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Dutch sponge, from Old French espoinge, from Latin spongia, from Ancient Greek σπογγιά (spongiá), from σπόγγος (spóngos), a substrate word.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
spons f (plural sponsen or sponzen, diminutive sponsje n)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Afrikaans: spons
- Negerhollands: spons, sponsje
- → Caribbean Javanese: sepons
- → Papiamentu: spòns, spons
- → Sranan Tongo: sponsu
See also edit
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
spons (first-person possessive sponsku, second-person possessive sponsmu, third-person possessive sponsnya)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Possibly connected with spondeō (thus a pledging of one's self to a thing; hence, opp. to external necessity or inducement, of free will, of one's own accord).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /spons/, [s̠põːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /spons/, [spɔns]
Noun edit
spōns f sg (genitive spontis); third declension
- free will, accord, impulse, motion, voluntarily, spontaneously, by one’s own wishes or own way
Declension edit
Third-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | spōns |
Genitive | spontis |
Dative | spontī |
Accusative | spontem |
Ablative | sponte |
Vocative | spōns |
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “spons”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “spons”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- spons in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) that is self-evident, goes without saying: hoc sua sponte appāret
- (ambiguous) that is self-evident, goes without saying: hoc sua sponte appāret
- spons in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Verb edit
spons
- imperative of sponse